On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 01:35, jamesc@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi! > > I just bumped into Yum and have been very happy with it other than one > minor little detail ... :) > > During the nightly cron job, I don't have any clue whether or not > anything happened. In the case where some headers were downloaded or > something, that's no biggie but if some actual packages were downloaded > and installed, I'd like to know about it. For the time being, I've got > RedHat's up2date running on a shiny-new RedHat 9 server and am receiving > errata from their service and (without logging onto the box) don't know > if yum has already updated the packages. > > It's not a huge deal, and I could probably work around it with another > cron job that does an rpm -qa and diffs it with last night's run, but > from reading the archives, it seems that Seth wants to insulate people > from rpm. ;) two possibilities: 1. have it send you the log file :) 2. the cron job runs yum -y -d 0 -e 0 update change -d 0 to -d 1 then yum will output the things it just did like: Installed: zsh.i386 Updated: foo.sparc64 (ok, so the above is pretty unlikely output but you get the idea :) -sv
